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It’s another case of good news/bad news for us One Piece collectors! Good news: Bandai has finally revealed another new One Piece Figuarts Zero figure after what seems like eternity (but is only actually about a month). Bad news: It’s yet another repaint of an old figure. Good news: It’s one of the best and most popular Figuarts Zero One Piece figures. Bad news: It’s a Japan-only Bandai Tamashii Web Shop Exclusive. Coming our way in fall 2014–the One Piece Figuarts Zero Shanks Special Color Ver. figure!

I sure hope your wallet (or credit card) had the chance to cool down from the immensely expensive One Piece Portrait of Pirates Sailing Again Franky figure that came out earlier this month, because MegaHouse is back to work with their newest regular release figure: the 2013 P.O.P. Neo-DX Shanks!

This isn’t the first One Piece POP Red-Haired Shanks figure, but it is unquestionably the best Shanks ever (and one of the best Portrait of Pirates figures overall)!

The month of March has arrived, and with it comes this month’s MegaHouse One Piece Portrait of Pirates figure pre-order. And this month is a big one–it’s one of the most anticipated remakes ever in the line: One Piece POP Shanks, captain of the Red-Haired Pirates! While there have been two One Piece Portrait of Pirates Shanks figures released before this 2013 version, this one absolutely blows his predecessors out of the water and stands tall as the greatest Shanks figure of all-time!

It’s been a few months since MegaHouse debuted the sculpt for the all-new and improved One Piece POP Neo DX Red-Haired Shanks coming out in 2013, but at this weekend’s Winter WonderFest 2013 we got our first glimpse at the fully-painted Portrait of Pirates Shanks figure prototype!

It was bound to happen someday, and with the recent release of One Piece POP Ben Beckman, many fans correctly postulated that a brand-new One Piece Portrait of Pirates Shanks figure was on the way. They were all proven right at the MegaHobby Expo Autumn 2012 last month, where the new Shanks made his debut. There were some trepidations that this figure would be a minor 1.5 upgrade like the recent Limited Rob Lucci and Blackbeard POPs, but those fears were for naught: P.O.P. Red-Haired Shanks is coming our way in 2013 and he is a 100% new sculpt.

On Saturday, November 17th a new pair of Bandai One Piece Figuarts Zero figures sailed into stores in Japan: Captain Red-Haired Shanks and Ben Beckman of the Red-Haired Pirates! This is the third figure of Red-Haired Shanks released in the Bandai Figuarts Zero One Piece collection. The first was a standard Shanks released at the very beginning of the line back in 2010, while the second was an unpopular Strong …